cuspid
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- multicuspid noun
Etymology
Origin of cuspid
1735–45; < Latin cuspid- (stem of cuspis ) point
Example Sentences
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She importuned Fred to notice the blood on the cuspid and to imagine the agony surrounding its expulsion from her mouth.
From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021
Virginia, whose hair has grown blonde and her tongue sharp, grudgingly comes to watch her husband lose another cuspid.
From Time Magazine Archive
This grading of form is not observed in passing from the cuspid to the bicuspid in man.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
Considering these stages of development, the grading from the cuspid to the bicuspid forms was more gradual in the earlier species than in the later, where the individual teeth have taken on special development.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
That small purple ring on the gum of the cuspid in the case first mentioned would eventually have led to the loss of the whole set, if left to work its way unopposed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
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